Since President Recep Tayyip Erdogan installed himself as ‘Sultan for life’, the Turks appear to have had a dramatic change of heart towards the barbarous relic…

The Turks have never imported a greater value of gold than in the last 12 months…

Addditionally, as Bloomberg reports, Bar and coin purchases, a measure of investment demand, were 47 metric tons so far in 2017, compared with 14.8 tons in the same period a year ago, according to a report from the World Gold Council published Thursday.

The weak lira and “President Erdogan’s pro-gold comments in November last year continued to lend support to the market,” the gold council said.